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The Lilliput Press Ltd The Hist & Edmund Burke’s Club: And Edmund
Book SynopsisThe College Historical Society has been a microcosm of the politics of Ireland since the first discussions in Edmund Burke's Club in 1747. As a student debating society it has always debated the burning issues of the day, sometimes being expelled from the College in consequence. This anthology brings together writings on the Hist over a period of 250 years, which convey the essence of the Society – debate on great and small issues within a highly formal, even legalistic, set of procedures, and yet with a leavening of humour. The opinions expressed by the key figures in Irish Society in their time are reflected, both in youth and in maturity. The Bicentenary in 1970 saw one of the great occasions of the Society. Statesmen and politicians debated Burke's philosophy, freedom and order, and Northern Ireland. Their speeches are still relevant. Past members have contributed their memories of their own time in the Hist. And the records of the Society have been mined for material which illustrates its development. These include part of the minutes of Burke's Club, the topics for debate over the years, and some Sub-committee reports, which tackle even very small issues with the full rigour of a Judicial Tribunal Report.Trade ReviewThis valuable history sheds a number of important sidelights on Irish history over more than two hundred years. The Hist, like Trinity itself, has often stood, during this period in a difficult and fraught relation with the rest of Ireland. But there is something in such a relationship that can stretch the mind and stimulate the talents. And in no case is this more evident than in that of Edmund Burke, Trinity's most illustrious son, founder of 'the Club' and ancestor of the College Historical Society.' – Conor Cruise O'Brien, President of the College Historical Society
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Route Publishing PitFolk and Peers Volume 2
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Prospect Books Feeding a City: York - Provision of Food from
Book SynopsisThe papers include discussions of the archaeological record; Anne Rycraft on the medieval diet and markets; Peter Brears on York guilds and on shopping in York and its supply of the hinterland; Eileen White on the domestic record of the 16th and 17th centuries; Laura Mason on the diet of the working class in Victorian York and on regional foods.
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Prospect Books The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and
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Prospect Books Taste or Taboo: Dietary Choices in Antiquity
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the way in which food was employed in Greek and Roman literature to impart identity, whether social, individual, religious or ethnic. In many instances these markers are laid down in the way that foods were restricted, in other words by looking at the negatives instead of the positives of what was consumed. Michael Beer looks at several aspects of food restriction in antiquity, for example, the way in which they eschewed excess and glorified the simple diet; the way in which Jewish dietary restriction identified that nation under the Empire; the way in which Pythagoreans denied themselves meat (and beans); and the way in which the poor were restricted by economic reality from enjoying the full range of foods. These topics allow him to look at important aspects of Graeco-Roman social attitudes. For example, republic virtue, imperial laxity, Homeric and Spartan military valour, social control through sumptuary laws, and answers to excessive drinking. He also looks closely at the inherent divide of the Roman world between the twin centres of Greece and Rome and how it is expressed in food and its consumption.
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Prospect Books Over a Red Hot Stove: Essays in Early Cooking
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Prospect Books The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Opened
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Prospect Books Tripe: A Most Excellent Dish
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Prospect Books Cocatrice and Lampray Hay: Late Fifteenth-century
Book SynopsisCocatrice and Lampray Hay is the title for this edition of the Corpus Christi College, Oxford MS F 291 which contains ninety nine original fifteenth century recipes written in English (showing signs, the experts claim, of East Anglian provenance). The recipes are remarkable for their close attention to detail and much greater information about quantities of ingredients than similar collections from earlier centuries. They include dishes such as the famous cocatrice or basilisk, which is a combination of pig and chicken constructed as a fabulous beast, to the more mundane, but more cookable, blancmanges, stewed oysters, croustades, pies, venison, beef and chicken dishes. The edition gives the original text, a translation into modern English, a full commentary and notes for the modern cook who wishes to interpret each dish in his or her own kitchen.
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Prospect Books The Most Excellent Book of Cookery: An Edition
Book SynopsisThe Livre fort excellent de cuysine is one of a family of cookery books that first saw the light with Pierre Sergent''s La Fleur de toute cuysine (renamed Le Grand cuisinier de toute cuisine) of 1542. This edition of the Livre fort excellent was published in 1555. Scholars have often dismissed the printed cookbooks of 16th-century France as simple rehashes of the great medieval Viandier of Taillevent or as merely concentrating on marginal dishes such as sweets and sugarwork. True French cooking, they say, did not start until the publication of Le Cuisinier francois by La Varenne in 1651. While there is some truth in this, the translators and editors of this book would maintain that the change from medieval to modern (already under way in Italy and Spain for example) can be dated back to this book and its kindred; that it was more than a plagiaristic copy. The Livre fort comprises about 70 pages of original French, with an English translation on facing pages. The translation is the work of Timothy J. Tomasik, Associate Professor of French, Valparaiso University, Indiana; an historical introduction discussing the culinary significance of the work is by Ken Albala, Professor of History at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. Professor Tomasik has translated other contemporary gastronomic texts and has written many articles on the French table in the Renaissance, and co-edited the volume At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Professor Albala is the author of Eating Right in the Renaissance and a leading light in historical food studies here and in America. He is editor of the journal Food, Culture and Society.
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Prospect Books Wrapped & Stuffed Foods: Proceedings of the
Book SynopsisThe thirty-first Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery discussed wrapped and stuffed foods from every possible geographical perspective. This may include sausages on the one hand, or stuffed ravioli on the other. It may also go as far as pies and sausage rolls. In geographical terms the Symposiasts were willing to look at cultures as disparate as Turkey, the United States, seventeeth-century England, Korea and Italy. There is also a pan- cultural discussion of stuffing and wrapping foods in avant-garde or molecular gastronomy.Contributors include the Chinese expert Fuschia Dunlop, the Greek cookery writer Aglaia Kremezi, the celebrated food writer and cultural historian from America Laura Shapiro, the Australian food historian Barbara Santich, the Israeli commentator and historian Susan Weingarten, and the English anthropologist David C. Sutton. Titles of some of the papers include: The Pillsbury Bake-Off: Stuffed and Wrapped in 1950s and 1960s America; Chicken Kiev: Material, Social and Discursive Wrappings; Samuel Pepys’s Venison Pasties; Barbarian heads and Turkish dumplings: the Chinese word mantou; A Knish Is Just a Knishor Is It? The Evolution of a Street Food to Haute Nosh and Before Dolma:A Taxonomy of Medieval Arab Stuffery.
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Third Millennium Publishing FIDES NOSTRA VICTORIA: A Portrait of St John's
Book SynopsisIncluding much specially commissioned photography, FIDES NOSTRA VICTORIA: A Portrait of St John's College, Durham offers a fresh look at every aspect of St John's through its first one hundred years - its history, its buildings and gardens, its special traditions and unique atmosphere, its people past and present and their myriad of activities. This book is much more than a history. A vital element complementing the central narrative will be the voices of Johnians from many living generations, recalling their experiences of college life - the highs, the lows, work and play, sports, worship, college characters and personalities, the politics and intrigues, the highlights, even the scandals - a patchwork of memories and recollections that will form a rich and lasting record of a very special institution. Edited by Amabel Craig
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Freedom Press The Slow Burning Fuse: Secret History of the
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University College Dublin Press Early Writings
Book SynopsisThe writings in this volume previously unpublished in English include the essay 'On Seeing in Nature', his doctoral dissertation 'Idea and Individual', a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of short stories contributed to a newspaper. Other essays collected together here concern primitive art, the sociology of German anti-Semitism, kitsch style and the age of kitsch, and the expulsion of the Huguenots from France. This edition includes as an appendix a draft outline of Elias' Habilitation thesis begun under Alfred Weber. "Early Writings" have been translated from the German edition, Fruschriften, published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt/Main as volume 1 of the Norbert Elias Gesammelte Schriften, 2002.Trade Review"As always we are glad to see Irish publishers recognising and catering for the rest of the world. In this case the typography and binding (full cloth, with acetate jacket, silk bands and ribbon) would make any publisher proud." Books Ireland, Feb 2006 "The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise." S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 "Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets." Books Ireland Nov 08Table of ContentsNorbert Elias: biographical note; Note on the text; Three-day excursion to the Riesengebirge (1914); On seeing in nature (1921); Idea and individual: A critical investigation of the concept of history (1924); Idea and individual: A contribution to the philosophy of history (1924); Anecdotes (1924); Contribution to the debate on Karl Mannheim: The importance of competition in the intellectual field (1929); On primitive art (1929); The sociology of German anti-Semitism (1929); The kitsch style and the age of kitsch (1935). The expulsion of the Huguenots from France (1935); Appendix: The emergence of the modern natural sciences (c. 1925-6); Bibliography; Index.
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Trolley Books Made in Italy: CGIL 100
Book SynopsisLess than a generation after the death of Garibaldi, Italy's largest trade union, the CGIL, was formed in 1906. This book is an independent photographic survey of Italy undertaken by four prize-winning photographers to mark the 100th anniversary of CGIL.
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D Giles Ltd Jews in America
Book Synopsis'Jews in America' documents the remarkable story of the Jewish presence in the New World, from the time of Columbus to the 1920s, when the Jewish community in the United States was four million strong and an essential part of American society and culture. Drawing on a mix of contemporary books, manuscripts, globes, maps and engravings from the world-renowned collections of the New York Public Library, Jews in America is a vivid document of everyday Jewish-American life, worship, law, and commerce. It tells the fascinating story of the first Jewish immigrants' arrival in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1654 (later New York City), Jewish interaction with the four colonial powers in the Western Hemisphere (Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands and England), and on the ideas and beliefs that they influenced. The final chapter looks at the evolving cultural role of Jews in late 19th and early 20th century New York, especially the rise of the Yiddish theatre.Trade Review"Reproductions exhibit excellent quality; many are in color on high-grade paper. The volume is well-referenced with endnotes. It concludes with a brief essay on the Jewish division of the New York Public Library. Summing Up: Highly recommended" R Hartsock, "Choice" "A handsome book" "For the library it is a testament to its Jewish division which contains one of the foremost collections of Judaica and Hebraica in the world" Michael Hirsch, "The Portolan" "A beautifully crafted catalogue of choice Jewish treasures" Esther Nussbaum, "Jewish Book World" "From the very beginning it is full of fresh insights" "This is a fascinating story, superbly told" David Herman, "Jewish Renaissance" "Gives a flavour of an important strand in the history of the United States" CassoneTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction I Discovery II New Christians, Conversos, and the Inquisition: The Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil, Suriname, and the Caribbean III Arriving in New Amsterdam - and then, New York IV Jewish Indians, Puritans and Quakers, the Christian Millennium, and the Hope of Israel V Communities and Constitutions in Colonial North America VI The Long Nineteenth Century of the Jews in America The Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library Further Reading Illustrations, Credits, and Acknowledgments Index
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Harbour Books (East) Ltd The London Complaint: A Celebration of the
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NMSE - Publishing Ltd From Kelso to Kalamazoo.: The Life and Times of
Book SynopsisThis memoir is by and about George Taylor: the manuscript was handed down through generations of his family. It recalls the varied and interesting life of a man who, at the age of 50, moved his family from Kelso in the Scottish Borders to Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the mid-nineteenth century. George Taylor was a gardener and nurseryman and, when settled in Kalamazoo, he soon established a successful business supplying plants and hedging. He was an award-winning horticulturalist and was responsible for the introduction of the cultivation of celery to the USA. In the course of hearing about George Taylor's life - including the death of three of his four wives in childbirth - we encounter people such as the widow of the man who supposedly served as the inspiration for Robert Burns' "Tam o' Shanter", and events such as the Great Fire of Chicago. From Kelso to Kalamazoo is all too rare a primary source testament to the realities of emigration from the lowlands of Scotland to the USA.Trade Review'The memoirs provide a fascinating insight to life in the nineteenth century. ... His story is an unusually positive Victorian tale, with the added bonus of being 'true'. National Archives of Scotland ' ... a valuable insight into daily life in a neglected region of Scotland and a burgeoning town of the American mid-west.' Marjory Harper in Review of Scottish CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Editorial Notes List of Illustrations Introduction by David Forsyth FROM KELSO TO KALAMAZOO 1 Early life 2 Working life and marriage 3 Travel and temperance 4 To America 5 Life in Michigan and visits to Scotland Notes Glossary Family tree Index
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NMSE - Publishing Ltd Scotland's Land Girls: Breeches, Bombers and
Book SynopsisAn introduction about the Women's Land Army in the First and Second World Wars is followed by reminiscences, recorded recently by the editor, of ten ex-Land Girls. It is co-published by NMS Enterprises Limited - Publishing and the European Ethnological Research Centre (EERC) an independent unit within Celtic & Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.Trade Review' ... The text combines first hand accounts with interviews held with the editor. The collection vividly brings to life the girls' personal experiences and highlights their daily work ... They also recalled their social lives, whist drives and dances ... The centre of the book has a lovely photographic section.' Scottish Farmer ' ... The introduction to the book draws together many of the key issues faced by the women ... A good amount of background material is provided, making it easy to picture the young women and their lives during the war. Were this not sufficient, two dozen images are also included from the Land Girls' own photograph collections showing them at work and relaxing in their off hours. ... an entertaining and information read that will appeal to a wide audience.' History Scotland 'National Museums Scotland have a happy knack of publishing books on subjects that have probably never crossed your mind before, yet which turn out to be captivating and thought provoking. Scotland's Land Girls: Breeches, Bombers and Backaches, to give its full title, fits this pattern very well indeed.' Undiscovered Scotland (website) ' ... I found this book totally absorbing. The ladies' reminiscences reveal a great deal of information about an aspect of the war effort which is often overlooked.' Scottish Home and County ' ... full of lively accounts of working and living on farms and how the experience shaped the girls' subsequent lives. ...' Ayrshire Notes ' ... Edwards has undertaken an important role in preserving the history and experiences of these women and their vital part in the war effort.' Northern ScotlandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Editorial Note Foreword SCOTLAND'S LAND GIRLS Introduction Written Recollections Spoken Memories Notes Glossary
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NMSE - Publishing Ltd Galoshins Remembered: 'A Penny Was a Lot in
Book Synopsis'Galoshins' was a seasonal folk drama learned orally and performed, mostly by boys, in people's houses. They were rewarded with food or pennies. It took place on New Year's Eve ('Old Year's Night')or on Hallowe'en in central and southern Scotland at the very end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. The drama took the form of a fight, sometimes with 'swords', and then a 'doctor' performed a comic turn in bringing the injured party back to life. These oral reminiscences, gathered for the first time in book form, were collected in the 1970s for the School of Scottish Studies Sound Archives, University of Edinburgh.Trade Review' ... offers many glimpses of bygone entertainment.' Scots Magazine 'The book that emerges is a detailed and comprehensive account of a tradition which, if the book had not been written, would very probably have been lost altogether as memories faded and those able to give first-hand accounts were increasingly no longer with us.' Undiscovered Scotland ' ... For thae fowk wha ar fand o blethers, this is a buik whilk shud be i yer leebrarie!' Lallans '... The present book in the NMS "Flashback" series extends our knowledge of the play in the past century and, by reproducing recorded tapes verbatim, provides valuable additional material.' Scottish Local HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Foreword by Mark A. Mulhern GALOSHINS REMEMBERED Introduction Recollections from the Players and Observers Notes Bibliography Glossary
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NMSE - Publishing Ltd From Land to Rail: Life and Times of Andrew
Book SynopsisCo-published with the European Ethnological Research Centre in the Flashbacks series. Andrew Ramage was the son of a farm servant and he himself worked on the land in the Lothians and Berwickshire, in Scotland. Subsequently he became a dock worker, lorry driver and railwayman. Of the diary he kept over many years only three notebooks remain. The first covers Andrew's early life from 1884 until the mid 1870s and the period from November 1888 until April 1889. The last two cover July 1914 to June 1917. In his account the uncertain realities of rural employment and dwelling are revealed and they dispel the bucolic image often attached to descriptions of 19th-century country life. We learn of the travails of a young man making his way in the world at a time of great social and economic change and, later, of the concerns of parenthood and aging at a time of war-time strife.Trade Review'Local historians often find it difficult to locate narratives prepared by ordinary working people of past generations, ... Accordingly the joint publishers of the "Flashbacks" series are to be congratulated for their efforts to find suitable texts of this kind for publication. ... In the 1914-17 diaries some of the entries are interesting for the way that the juxtapose news from the War Front, information about troop trains on the railway, and searches for infiltrating spies, with everyday local or personal news ... ' Scottish Local HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Editorial Notes Introduction FROM LAND TO RAIL Life and Times of Andrew Ramage 1854-1917 MEMOIR: Note Book belonging to Andrew Ramage Gateman at Stenton Level crossing, East Linton (2 November 1888) DIARY: Part 1 (1888-1889) DIARY: Part II (1914-1917) DIARY: ENTRIES EXTRACTED FROM PARTS I AND II Notes biographical Notes Bibliography Glossary Index
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John Donald Publishers Ltd Scottish Life and Society Volume 1: An
Book SynopsisThe publication of 'An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor Alexander Fenton. The series explores the many elements in Scottish history, language and culture which have shaped the identity of Scotland and Scots at local, regional and national level, placing these in an international context. Each of the thirteen volumes already published focuses on a particular theme or institution within Scottish society. This introduction provides an overview of the discipline of ethnology as it has developed in Scotland and more widely, the sources and methods for its study, and practical guidance on the means by which it can be examined within its constituent genres, based on the experience of those currently working with ethnological materials. Theory and practice are presented in an accessible fashion, making it an ideal companion for the student, the scholar and the interested amateur alike.
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Just Press The Spanner Experiment: Rediscovering Two Minor
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Just Press Lady Chatterley's Defendant & Other Awkward
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Dedalus Ltd Dedalus Book of Vodka
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Five Leaves Publications Look Back in Anger: The Miners' Strike in
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Luath Press Ltd The BBC in Scotland: The First 50 Years
Book SynopsisSince its establishment in 1922 the BBC has continually asserted itself as one of the great British institutions at home and abroad. David Pat Walker offers an in-depth analysis of the history of BBC Scotland from its creation in 1923 through to its 50th anniversary in the seventies. Examining how the firm developed over the course of the 20th century, the author portrays how the broadcaster developed its own Scottish identity despite governance from London and how it thrived within the context of the history it reported and created.Trade ReviewPat Walker charts the continuing challenges and development in television and radio across drama, light entertainment, music, news, current affairs, sport and ground-breaking programmes such as the weekly series Scope. Alongside this there was a battle between the Director General Hugh Carelton Greene and BBC Scotland’s controller Andrew Stewart over tradition and trendiness, only one of many confrontations. – THE SCOTSMAN
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Luath Press Ltd The Islands that Roofed the World: Easdale,
Book SynopsisThe Slate Islands lie off the west coast of Argyll. Slate has been taken from these shores from their earliest recorded history and the richness and quality of the deposits meant that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries slate quarrying was one of the most important industries in Scotland. The Breadalbane family owned the land of Easdale and its surrounds for over 400 years and of course roofed their own buildings in slate as well as may important buildings, including Cawdor Castle in Inverness-Shire and Glasgow Cathedral. The geology, the industry, the people and their way of lie: this is the story of the Slate Islands past, present and future.
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Milo Books Drug War: The Secret History
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Bitter Lemon Press The French in London
Book SynopsisEver since 1066 there has been a substantial French presence in London. It is now said to be the sixth most populous French city and this book illustrates, explains, and exposes how this came about over more than a 1000 years. Full of individual stories and overlooked details covering a common history, from William the Conqueror, via the Huguenots (e.g. David Garrick's family), and the emigres of the French Revolution ( such as the families of Joseph Bazelgette, Augustus Pugin and Isambard Brunel), and on to London, the capital of the Free French during WWII. It is also a guide book to those streets, museums, monuments, churches and art dedicated to the French of London. Voltaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Foch and dozens of others are all honoured by plaques or statues. Traces and stories of those escaping the French Revolution and the Commune are remembered. Talleyrand, Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael all lived in London during those turbulent years.
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The Westbourne Press Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary
Book SynopsisAs seen in the major Netflix documentary `Mercury 13' In 1961, Wally Funk was among the Mercury 13, the first group of American pilots to pass the `Woman in Space' programme. Wally sailed through a series of rigorous physical and mental tests, with one of her scores beating all the male Mercury 7 astronauts', including John Glenn's, the first American in orbit. But just one week before the final phase of training, the programme was abruptly cancelled. A combination of politics and prejudice meant that none of the women ever flew into space. Undeterred, Wally went on to become America's first female aviation safety inspector, though her dream of being an astronaut never dimmed. In this offbeat odyssey, journalist and fellow space enthusiast Sue Nelson joins Wally, now approaching her eightieth birthday, as she races to make her own giant leap before it's too late. Covering their travels across the United States and Europe - taking in NASA's mission control in Houston, the European Space Agency's HQ in Paris and Spaceport America in New Mexico, where Wally's ride into space awaits - this is a uniquely intimate and entertaining portrait of a true aviation trailblazer.Trade Review`Extraordinary ... throws fascinating light on the story of female space travel' Daily Mail Book of the Week; `Wally Funk's character leaps off the page ... fantastic and so inspirational.' Naga Munchetty, BBC Breakfast; `A truly inspiring book about friendship, women's place in the history of aviation and space, and the cost of a dream.' BBC Sky at Night *****; `An odyssey of a friendship ... Wally's character shines through. ... As the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings approach, it's sobering to have a reminder of the astronauts who might have been.' New Statesman; `After the success of Hidden Figures, Wally Funk's Race for Space feels immensely important and timely - like the world is finally waking up to women's contributions to science and engineering.' Physics World; `A compelling portrait' Nature
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Saqi Books The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax
Book SynopsisIn 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre. Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds to witness the trick, the performer didn't. Over the following decades, elaborate jokes and fanciful tales would continue to bamboozle people across England. In The Century of Deception, magician and historian Ian Keable tells the engrossing stories of these eighteenth-century hoaxes and those who were duped by them. The English public were hoodwinked time and time again, swallowing whole tales of rapping ghosts, a woman who gave birth to rabbits, a levitating Frenchman in a Chinese Temple and outrageous astrological predictions. Not only were the hoaxes widely influential, drawing in celebrities such as Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Swift, they also inflamed concerns about 'English credulity'.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The International Companion to Scottish
Book SynopsisBetween 1400 and 1650 Scotland underwent a series of drastic changes, in court, culture, and religion. Renaissance and Reformation, the Union of the Crowns, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms all shaped the nation, shifting and recasting Scotland's established relationships with Europe, the Mediterranean world, and with England. This International Companion traces the impact of these sweeping historical transformations on Scotland's literatures, in English, Gaelic, Latin and Scots, and provides a comprehensive overview to the major cultural developments of this turbulent age.
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Bookmarks Publications Them And Us: Fighting the Class War 1910-1939
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Prospect Books English Sausages
Book SynopsisThe book contains chapters covering: the sausages of Roman England; English fresh sausages; regional fresh sausages; white puddings and hogs puddings; black puddings, smoked and keeping sausages. There is then a section on making sausages, a full glossary and bibliography. There are approximately 100 recipes.
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Prospect Books Food and Material Culture: Proceedings of the
Book SynopsisTopics covered by the papers include: Aesthetics and politics of the kitchen in fascist Italy, The bamboo tea whisk in Japanese tea culture, Cooking under fire, 1914-1918, Sugar sculpture in Italian court banquets, Mongolian milk spoons, Perfuming the table in old Baghdad.
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University of Hertfordshire Press Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural
Book SynopsisEnglish rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our understanding of this period has been shaped by the compartmentalization of history into medieval and early-modern specialisms and by the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism and landlord-tenant relations. Inspired by the classic works of Tawney and Postan, this collection of essays examines their relevance to historians today, distinguishing between their contrasting approaches to the pre-industrial economy and exploring the development of agriculture and rural industry; changes in land and property rights; and competition over resources in the English countryside.Table of Contents1. Tawney and Postan: Two Pathways to Understanding the Pre-Industrial Economy by Christopher Dyer2. Rural Industry and the Peasant Agrarian Economy: A Study of the Iron Industry in Medieval England by Alexandra Sapoznik3. English Agrarian Structures in a European Context, 1300-1925 by John Broad4. Farming the Kentish Marshlands: Continuity and Change in the late Middle Ages by Sheila Sweetinburgh5. 'The Struggle for the Commons': Commons, Custom and Cottages in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by James P. Bowen6. The Economics of Shipwreck in Late-Medieval Suffolk by Tom Johnson7. Custom and Competition for Woodland Resources in Early-Modern High and Low Furness, Lancashire by William D. Shannon8. Custom, Common Right and Commercialisation in the Forest of Dean, c.1605-1640 by Simon Sandall9. A Money Economy? Provisioning Durham Cathedral across the Dissolution, 1350-1600 by A. T. Brown10. Elizabethan Entrepreneurs: Three Clothiers of the Frome valley, 1550-1600 by John Gaisford11. 'The Fellowship of the Town': Constituting the Commonality of an English Town, Cirencester, c.1200-1800 by David RollisonAfterword by Andy Wood
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University of Hertfordshire Press Gardens and Green Spaces in the West Midlands
Book SynopsisGarden history is more than the study of individuals such as 'Capability Brown' who created estates for a wealthy élite. A new approach, which includes insights from geology and archaeology, the perspectives of social class and gender, the history of art and architecture, science, technology and literature, is changing our perspective so that we can see gardens and gardening within wider social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Landscapes were created, formed and interpreted by town dwellers, women and lesser-known gardeners and designers as well as the 'great men' of the past. Based on papers given at a conference at the University of Birmingham, and written by distinguished scholars who are also writing for a wide audience, these essays highlight the wealth of recent research into landscape and green spaces in the West Midlands. The book ranges from the Picturesque movement in Herefordshire to William Shenstone's unique ferme ornée at The Leasowes, near Halesowen and the aspirational gardens and allotments of the Quaker ironmasters at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. Other contributions celebrate women's entrepreneurial activity in the nursery trade, chart the uncovering and restoration of a hidden eighteenth-century landscape at Hagley in Worcestershire and explore the lost Vauxhall pleasure gardens in Birmingham, which were established as a commercial venture in the eighteenth century. An examination of Victorian public parks reveals how their aesthetics were shaped by architecture made from the products of manufacturing industry while a study of three modest suburban estates considers how local industrialists shaped the environment of south Birmingham. The relationships between health, medicine and green spaces are explored through an analysis of the role of 'therapeutic landscapes' in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century Worcestershire. Enhanced with maps, plans and black-and-white and colour illustrations, this is a volume of important scholarship that places the West Midlands at the heart of landscape history.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gardens and green spaces in the West Midlands since 1700 Malcolm Dick and Elaine Mitchell 1 A landscape of `ravishing varieties’: the origins of picturesque landscaping in Stuart and Georgian Herefordshire David Whitehead 2 Exploring a landscape garden: William Shenstone at The Leasowes John Hemingway 3 Coalbrookdale: more than an eighteenth-century industrial landscape Harriet Devlin MBE 4 Duddeston’s `shady walks and arbours’: the provincial pleasure garden in the eighteenth century Elaine Mitchell 5 Enterprising women: shaping the business of gardening in the Midlands, 1780–1830 Dianne Barre 6 Manufactured landscapes: Victorian public parks and the industrial imagination Katy Layton-Jones 7 `Almost in the country’: Richard Cadbury, Joseph Chamberlain and the landscaping of south Birmingham Maureen Perrie 8 Care in the countryside: the theory and practice of therapeutic landscapes in the early twentieth century Clare Hickman 9 Finding my place: rediscovering Hagley Park Joe Hawkins
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University of Hertfordshire Press Prostitution in Victorian Colchester: Controlling
Book SynopsisThe decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest in the country and the town experienced an economic upturn as well as benefiting from the many social events organised by officers. But there was a downside: some of the soldiers' behaviour was highly disruptive and, since very few private soldiers were allowed to marry, prostitution flourished. As a result the number of cases of venereal disease soared. Having compiled a database of nearly 350 of Colchester's nineteenth-century prostitutes, the authors examine how they lived and operated and who their customers were. What were the routes into and out of prostitution and what was life like as a prostitute? Was it even seen by some as an acceptable way for girls and young women to boost inadequate earnings from more respectable work? How did prostitution intersect with the social life of the town, especially as this was played out in local beerhouses? This is also an investigation of how authority in its many guises - from policeman and solicitor to magistrate and lady reformer - dealt with prostitution and the many problems associated with it, bringing a great many vested interests into conflict with each other. Such large numbers of women could not be tidied away into a discreet red-light district but lived and worked all over the town. They gave the police considerable trouble, but it was routinely declared that nothing could be done about them. Prostitution itself was not illegal whilst efforts to tackle the women's criminal activity, such as soliciting, theft or assault, were largely ineffective. Under pressure from the army, Parliament passed the Contagious Diseases Acts, allowing prostitutes affected with venereal symptoms in garrison towns to be confined for treatment, but there was widespread opposition to these controversial laws. Bringing to bear considerations of class and gender, urban development, health and welfare, religion and moral reform, this is a wide-ranging, detailed and original study. As well as providing a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century Colchester, it will appeal to all those interested in the history of women's work, policing and society more widely.Table of Contents1. Colchester's Victorian Garrison 2. The Life of the Prostitute, Cradle to Grave 3. Hannah Murrells and Thomas Platford 4. Men who Encouraged Prostitution 5. The Lifeboat and the Anchor 6. The Contagious Diseases Acts and the Lock Hospital 7. Policing Prostitution 8. The Role of Colchester's Solicitors 9. Adjudicating Prostitution 10. The Ship at Headgate 11. Reformers and Neighbours
£18.04
Medina Publishing Ltd Through the Palace Keyhole
Book SynopsisFrom the Arab world comes a love story between an Arab man and an American woman that lasted more than half a century. Their lives spanned both sides of the Jordan River, and their love was tested by the traditions of an ancient and proud Christian tribe and the contrasts between their cultures. Although surrounded by conflicts in the Middle East, they built family hotels that survive as a tribute to his dreams and strength and her unwavering determination to support him.
£13.95
Bristol Books CIC Hotwells: Spa to Pantomime
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Bristol Books CIC Keynsham & Saltford: 1945-2020
Book SynopsisThis story of Keynsham and Saltford over just one lifetime highlights memorable events institutions, individuals and their achievements that are remembered fondly and buildings that have gone for ever. Topics include Fry's, Keynsham Hospital and how our shops have changed.
£14.25
Snowbooks Ltd Christmas Explained: Robins, Kings and Brussel
Book SynopsisAn interesting compendium of the origins of familiar Christmas customs and traditions. Green speculates on such matters as the identity of the three kings, explains such mysteries as the reasoning behind the date of Christmas and the development of the Advent calendar and the Christmas cracker, and asks, in the words of Brian''s Mum: "What is myrrh anyway?" You''ll find out here.
£11.39
Two Rivers Press Whispers of Better Things: Green Belts to
Book SynopsisWhispers of Better Things is a quest to understand the origins of some of the campaigns in Victorian England for greater social and environmental justice.These movements created a legacy that still enriches our lives today. Without them we would not have the National Trust, Green Belts, 'rights of air and exercise', play grounds, public sanitation, or social housing. Without them, beauty would take even less precedence in public decision making than it does today.This book focuses on the Hill family, their forebears and associates who, by standing up and standing out in Victorian society, led the way to these better things. Some of these whispers require our attention today lest we lose them or fail to enhance and adapt them to our current and future needs.
£999.99
Herb Lester Associates Ltd Filthy London
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£6.07
Quercus Publishing Interstate: Hitch Hiking Through the State of a
Book SynopsisWinner of the STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR"This book seems prophetic in the wake of Donald Trump and the current controversy over 'fake news'" Daily Telegraph"One can't help thinking that the future of travel writing lies in this adventurous, postmodern genre" Sara WheelerDocumenting Sayarer's real life journey hitchhiking across the US, this fascinating memoir tells the story of the forgotten people lost in their own country, grappling to find a voice in the vast political landscape of the US.Recruited to work on a big documentary project, Julian goes to New York convinced he has hit big time at last. Finding the project cancelled he wanders the city streets and hitchhiking to San Francisco slowly starts to seem like the most sensible option for his career as a travel writer.The story finds an unseen America in rough shape; Julian meets a place of Interstates, forgotten towns and food deserts, always grappling with the scale and energy of the US. Julian tells a tale of Steinbeck, Kerouac and the vast, thundering indifference of American geography and culture at the start of a new century."On the Road for the Occupy Generation" Open Democracy"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with fire. Sayarer is a marvellous example" HORATIO CLARETrade ReviewChallenging and enigmatic . . . One can t help thinking that the future of travel writing lies in this adventurous, postmodern genre -- Sara WheelerAs much an examination of roadside politics as the US landscape, the round-the-world cycling record holder writes about encounters with characters who range from roadside travellers and anarchists to blue-collar communities struggling to find meaning after their industries have departed overseas * Guardian *The book seems prophetic in the wake of Donald Trump and the current controversy over 'fake news' * Daily Telegraph *
£9.99
Tangent Books Totterdown Rising: A Story of Endurance and
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Five Leaves Publications Curious King's Cross
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